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McDonald’s Stops Drive-Via AI Chatbot Checks for Now

After two years of testing, McDonald’s has ended its partnership with IBM to develop a synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered drive-thru system. The collaboration, which aimed to alter the fast-food ordering course of by changing human staff with voice-activated chatbots, had been a carefully watched experiment within the trade. The fast-food large’s …

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SoundHound Pays Off $100 Million Debt After Lender Settlement 

SoundHound AI has reached an settlement to prepay its $100 million debt in full. The voice synthetic intelligence (AI) agency introduced that settlement with its lenders Monday (June 10), saying it considerably lowers its early cost prices and lets SoundHound save greater than $55 million of curiosity and costs that might have been …

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